ManuscriptInstructions... Relating to the line of battle, orders of sailing, etc. etc Small 4to. Unpaginated. 44 leaves of manuscript instructions. This is an officer&#146;s manuscript copy of signals and instructions. It follows a familiar format, listing battle instructions, using color drawings of flags to show signaling methods, which correspond to &#147;Significations&#148; which are indexed and numbered. Also included is a drawing illustrating a method of signaling with oars from a boat. The book is thumb indexed for easy reference. On the inside of the back wrapper is written, &#147;Mr. Thompson, HMS Talavera.&#148; The Talavera was a 74 gun third rate ship of the line, launched in 1818 and destroyed by fire in 1840. The paper endsheets are watermarked 1831, suggesting Thompson served aboard the Talavera toward the end of her career, and that the instructions herein are a later iteration of those appearing in Howe&#146;s printed &#147;Signals and Instructions.&#148; Text in ink and watercolor. Bound in blue wrappers, in a protective red leather box with spine label.

[CRUIKSHANK, George and Robert, illustrators] | KERR, John |Ancient Legends , c.1818 . c.1818 . first edition. Extremely Scarce CruikshankWith Hand Colored Plates[CRUIKSHANK, George and Robert, illustrators]. [KERR, John]. Ancient Legends. London: Printed and Published by D. Carvalho, n.d. [c. 1818]. First editions, seven of twelve original parts with duplicates or triplicates to three titles. Twelve twelvemo volumes. Each part with hand-colored engraved frontispiece by G. or R. Cruikshank; a total of twelve hand-colored wood-engraved plates. Original printed wrappers except where noted otherwise. Original wrappers soiled with some wear.Chemised and housed in a red cloth slipcase. A Cruikshank title of extreme rarity, with OCLC noting only two complete copies in institutional holdings worldwide, at Harvard, and Princeton. The copy at Yale contains only nine of twelve parts. The copy at the Ransom Center has only four of twelve parts. The last copy to come to auction was in 1943, an incomplete set with nine of twelve parts (probably the copy now at Yale)."The wrapper to the first number speaks of thirteen parts, but it is practically certain that only twelve were published. Either the thirteenth part was merely an extra containing the title page to the volume, index, etc., or the part was not issued. In the reissue by Carvalho the twelve parts only are referred to on the wrappers." (Cohn).Includes:1. Bellamira, or The Fall of Tunis (3 cc, one in later plain wrappers). (R. Cruikshank).2. Don Phantissima, or Fortune & Folly (2 cc, one in later plain wrappers). (G. Cruikshank).3. Dopinique and His Mandouine (3 cc, 2 with later plain wrappers). (R. Cruiksank).4. Constantina; or, The Daughter of Affliction. (G. Cruikshank).5. Dulvarno; or, The Blasted Hut of the Mountains. (G. Cruikshank).6. The Murdered Minstrel; or, The Solitary Castle of the Glen (later plain wrappers). (G. Cruikshank).7. Adelaide of Bavaria; or, Love, Honor, and Perfidy (later plain wrappers). (R. Cruikshank).Lacks Babelmunach, Kouli Khan, Becamorto, The Towers of Segovia, and The Spectre of Elwina. 1818 was a busy year for George Cruikshank. In that year, according to Patten, G.C. produced "upwards of 180 images" (Vol. I, p. 142)."Durang refers to the dramatist who is reputed to have done the version for Mr. Hackett, as &#39;Old Mr. Kerr,&#39; an actor, who appeared in Philadelphia under the management of F. C. Wemyss. However much of an actor John Kerr was, he must have gained some small reputation as a playwright. In 1818, Duncombe [sic] issued Kerr&#39;s &#39;Ancient Legends,&#39; and at the Harvard Library, where there is a copy of this book, the catalogue gives Kerr&#39;s position in London at the time as Prompter of the Regency Theatre. He must have ventured, with a relative, into independent publishing, for there was issued, in 1826, by J. & H. Kerr, the former&#39;s freely translated melodramatic romance, &#39;The Monster and Magician; or, The Fate of Frankenstein,&#39; taken from the French of J. T. Merle and A. N. Bïraud. He did constant translation, and it is interesting to note the similarity between his &#39;The Wandering Boys! or, The Castle of Olival,&#39; announced as an original comedy, and M. M. Noah&#39;s play of the same name" (Burke, Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip Van Winkle, p. 28).Cohn 462. Douglas 31. Widener Collection, p. 50.

[PEACOCK, Thomas Love]NIGHTMARE ABBEY T. Hookham Jun. & Baldwin Cradock and Joy , 1818. T. Hookham Jun. & Baldwin Cradock and Joy , 1818. First edition. Bound in nineteenth century green cloth with gilt titles to spine. A very good copy with periodic foxing throughout, wanting half title. The author&#39;s most famous work and pastiche of the Gothic novel, published in the same year as Jane Austen&#39;s similarly titled Gothic burlesque. It is also a play on romantic literary society with characters drawn to resemble Byron, Coleridge, Shelley and others.

"PALMER, JOHN""Journal of travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, performed in the year 1817; containing particulars relating to the prices of land and provisions, remarks on the country and people, interesting anecdotes, and an account of the commerce, trade, and present state of Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Albany, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Lexington, Quebec, Montreal, &c. To which are added a description of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, and a variety of other useful information. With a new coloured map, delineating all the states and territories " London: 1818, "Sherwood, Neely, and Jones. London: 1818. "Sherwood, Neely, and Jones". "First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 456; folding engraved frontispiece map by Melish, hand-colored in outline; late 19th - early 20th century quarter polished red calf over marbled boards, black morocco label on gilt- decorated spine; sound and clean; very good. & & Howes P-49; Sabin 58360, citing both the Edinburgh and Monthly Reviews: ""Mr. Palmer travelled through all, or the greater part of the country he describes; but he confesses that the outlines of his travels were filled up from other books ... A plain man of good sense and no judgment."""

CHALMERS, George | [BAYNTUN OF BATH (binder)] |Life of Mary, Queen of Scots, The , 1818. 1818. first edition. Magnificently BoundMunificently Extra-IllustratedCHALMERS, George. The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots; Drawn from the State Papers. With Six Subsidiary Memoirs illustrated with Ten Plates of Medals, Portraits, and Prospects. In Two Volumes. London: Printed for John Murray, 1818. First edition, extra-illustrated. Two quarto volumes (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 in; 263 x 200 mm). ix, [3], 499, [1]; [2], 502 pp. Ten plates as issued, plus extra-illustrated with seventy fine engraved plates with tissue guards, of which thirteen are hand-colored. The extra-illustrations include works by Bartlett, Turner, Allom, etc., most contemporary with or earlier to the title under notice. Bound by Bayntun of Bath c. 1915 in full wine crushed morocco with gilt-ruled border enclosing a panel of gilt and black borders with gilt corner-pieces. Gilt and black ruled compartments. Gilt-ruled turn-ins with gilt corner ornaments. All edges gilt. A very fine set. Each volume housed in a specially made contemporary half crimson calf slipcase.George Chalmers (1742-1825) was a Scottish antiquarian and political writer. In August 1786, Chalmers, a Royalist, was appointed chief clerk to the committee of Privy Council on matters relating to trade, an office which he held until his death in 1825, a period. As his official duties made no great demands on his time, he had abundant leisure to devote to his favorite studies - the antiquities and topography of Scotland having his special attention. His Life of Mary, Queen of Scots was based upon a manuscript left by John Whitaker, the historian of Manchester, which Chalmers rewrote almost in full. Mary&#39;s history occupied much of his attention, and his last work, A Detection of the Love Letters lately attributed in Hugh Campbell&#39;s work to Mary Queen of Scots (1825), is an exposure of an attempt to represent as genuine some fictitious letters said to have passed between Mary and Bothwell.

TennesseeForms of Precedents, For the Use of Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs... 1818. Scarce Early Tennessee Formbook [Tennessee]. Forms of Precedents, For the Use of Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Coroners, And Constables, In the State of Tennessee; And a Complete Practical Conveyancer; Containing the Most Useful and Necessary Precedents in Conveyancing, With the Forms of Almost Every Useful Instrument of Writing. Nashville: Printed and Sold by T.G. Bradford, 1818. 153, [8] pp. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4"). Recent quarter imitation calf over cloth, gilt title to spine, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to extremities, moderate browning to text. Early signatures and annotations to endleaves, interior otherwise clean. * Second and final edition of this early Tennessee formbook that was first published in 1816. With index. OCLC locates 1 copy of the first edition in a law library (Library of Congress), 1 of the second (Harvard Law School). Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 8146..

[Slavery]: [Barbados]:THE REPORT FROM A SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE ORIGIN, CAUSES, AND PROGRESS, OF THE LATE INSURRECTION Barbados: W. Walker, [1818].. Barbados: W. Walker, [1818].. 63pp. Stitched as issued. Minor foxing. Very good. In a red half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise. Very rare first edition of a report printed in Barbados on the origins of the slave insurrection of 1816, including numerous eyewitness descriptions of the bloodshed. "The rebellion began on April 14, 1816, in St. Philip&#39;s Parish. The canes on one-fifth of the estates in the island were burned, and property to the amount of £179,000 was destroyed. It had its origin in a rumor that freedom was to have been granted at the close of 1815. When this had not transpired, a restlessness resulted which showed itself in the Easter outbreak. The foundation of the false report was to be found in the proposed establishment of registration, and the hope for emancipation had been kept alive by the exertions of Wilberforce in England" (Ragatz). Following a report of the committee containing a history of the insurrection as well as conclusions of its origins, the pamphlet includes transcripts of twenty-one interviews with various slaves, free men of colour, military officers, pastors of local churches and others. The pamphlet concludes with the Jan. 17, 1816 resolutions of the Barbados House of Assembly as well as an alphabetical listing of Barbados property owners with the amounts of their losses from the insurrection. Undated on the title, Ragatz and other bibliographers have ascribed the date of this pamphlet to 1816; however a footnote on p. 23 references a Feb. 19, 1817 report and at a meeting of the Barbados Assembly on Jan. 7, 1818 the committee&#39;s report was formally presented and 250 copies were directed to be printed for distribution on the island and in England. Among the recipients of the latter was John Gladstone, the original owner of the present copy. The provenance of this copy to Gladstone, the father of the prime minister, is significant, as he was among the largest of the slave owners in the West Indies. OCLC cites but three extant copies of the first edition (Library of Congress, University of London and the American Antiquarian Society). Schomburgk, in his mid- 19th century history of Barbados, confirms: "There are few copies if any of that report left in the island." HANDLER, A GUIDE TO SOURCE MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF BARBADOS HISTORY, pp. 70-71; RAGATZ, p. 138. SCHOMBURGK, THE HISTORY OF BARBADOS, p. 398. SABIN 3284.

PALMER, JOHNJournal of travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, performed in the year 1817; containing particulars relating to the prices of land and provisions, remarks on the country and people, interesting anecdotes, and an account of the commerce, trade, and present state of Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Albany, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Lexington, Quebec, Montreal, &c. To which are added a description of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, and a variety of other useful information. With a new coloured map, delineating all the states and territories Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London 1818 - First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 456; folding engraved frontispiece map by Melish, hand-colored in outline; late 19th - early 20th century quarter polished red calf over marbled boards, black morocco label on gilt- decorated spine; sound and clean; very good. Howes P-49; Sabin 58360, citing both the Edinburgh and Monthly Reviews: "Mr. Palmer travelled through all, or the greater part of the country he describes; but he confesses that the outlines of his travels were filled up from other books . A plain man of good sense and no judgment." [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

RALFE, James |Naval Chronology of Great Britain, The , 1818. 1818. first edition. Scarcer Than a Battleship in a Bathtub In the Original Parts The Genuine Hand-Colored IssueRALFE, Mr. J[ames]. Naval Chronology of Great Britain. Or, an Historical Account of Naval and Maritime Events, From the Commencement of the War in 1803, to the end of the year 1816: also, Particulars of the Most Important Court-Martial, Votes of Parliament, Lists of Flag-Officers in Commission, and of Promotions for Each year: The Whole forming a complete Naval History of the above Period. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings. London: Whitmore and Fenn, 1818. First edition, early issue with plates watermarked 1819. Twelve original parts, 1818-1819, in tall octavo (10 1/8 x 6 7/8 in; 256 x 175 mm). Sixty "genuine" hand-colored aquatint plates (with printed inscriptions, i.e. "from a sketch by...," "from a plan by...,"), including frontispiece, with original tissue guards. Original buff printed wrappers, with expert renewal by master restoration artist, Bruce Levy. Vol. 1: facsimile wrappers; Vol. 2: joints and endcaps restored, rear wrapper facsimile; Vol. 3: endcaps repaired, front wrapper re-attached; Vol. 4: plate with loss filled-in, front wrapper fill-in at fore-edge; Vol. 6: Front wrapper reattached; Vol. 7: facsimile wrappers, seven plates re-attached; Vol. 8: facsimile wrappers, six plates re-attached; Vol. 9: backstrip repair, wrappers re-attached; vol. 10: Joints and endcaps repaired; Vol. 11: Front joint and endcaps repaired, 5 plates re-attached; Vol. 12: backstrip repaired, corner restoration. A fine set. Housed in a blue cloth drop-back clamshell box.A book of incredible scarcity in the original parts with only one copy seen at auction within the last fifty-three years, in 1960. This copy was stashed in the 1930s and forgotten in the vault of a bookselling firm until recently. The rare 1820 three-volume first edition in book format is common by comparison.According to Abbey, plates later colored lack the inscriptions as noted above for genuine hand-colored plates, i.e. colored at time of issue. "Genuine colored copies are rare" (Tooley). The rear wrappers state "Price to Subscribers 10s 6d plain, and 15s coloured."The key, invaluable reference on the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and American War of 1812 with plates based on drawings by officers, many of whom were participants in the naval battles: T. Sutherland, F.C. Lewis, D. Havel and others after T. Whitcombe, J. Beresford, W.A. Armstrong, J. Gore, W. Hill. With List of Subscribers"The object of this work is, more particularly, to perpetuate the names of those individuals who have, by their talents, courage, and professional abilities, increased the honour and reputation of the British Navy, and secured the peace and independence of the Country."It will form a complete Naval History from 1802 (the time at which Captain Schomberg&#39;s Chronology terminates) to 1817, under the form generally acknowledged to be the most convenient for an historical work of reference. From the arrangements which have been made, it is expected that the work will answer every purpose of information not only to gentlemen of the Navy, but to those who feel an interest in the naval events of the last fourteen yeas; while the correctness of the drawings, the superior style of the engravings, and the neatness of execution, will render it worthy of the attention of every lover of the fine arts. Indeed, throughout the greatest pains will be taken to make this publication of the utmost utility, and deserving of general patronage" (rear wrapper).Abbey, Life 342. Tooley 392. Sabin 67602. Howes R21. Cf. Prideaux, p. 348 (book edition).

[GILBERT, Ann [née Taylor]. THE YOUNG TRAVELLERS; or, a Visit to Oxford. By a Lady. [4], 151, [1 errata] pages. Illustrated with 2 engraved plates. Recently rebound in half calf, gilt over marbled boards. Some water-staining and foxing to the second plate; else a very good and handsome copy. First published in 1818.

Saunders, Prince:HAYTIAN PAPERS. A COLLECTION OF THE VERY INTERESTING PROCLAMATIONS AND OTHER OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, TOGETHER WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT STATE OF THE KINGDOM OF HAYTI Boston. 1818.. Boston. 1818.. 156pp. Original orange printed boards. Spine partially perished, boards lightly warped and soiled. Light foxing and toning. Contemporary inscription on fly leaf. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt. The first American edition, after the first London edition of 1816, of this work by an African American author. Prince Saunders (1775-1839) attended Dartmouth and later taught for four years at Boston&#39;s African School. In 1816 he became adviser to Haitian Emperor Henri Christophe, where he set up schools and promoted emigration to Haiti for American Blacks. After Christophe was overthrown (and committed suicide) in 1821, Saunders returned to America, but he later emigrated back to Haiti to escape racial persecution. At the time of his death, Saunders was serving as attorney general of Haiti. The fly leaf bears a presentation inscription from John James to Robert Moore, M.D., dated 1818. James was a Quaker merchant, long involved with the abolitionist movements. In the autumn of 1818, while Saunders was in Philadelphia, James introduced him to Spanish ambassador Don Luis Onìs. Both James and Moore, also a fellow Quaker, were party to the 1783 Quaker Anti- Slavery Petition, which was submitted to the Continental Congress in the form of an Address from the Friend&#39;s Yearly Meeting. Dr. Moore&#39;s wife was also elected the first president of the Female Anti-Slavery Society when it was formed in 1833. Relatively scarce on the market. ABPC shows only two copies of this edition at auction, both appearing over thirty years ago. This copy is truly lovely, in the original boards and with an interesting and important association. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 45637. SABIN 29578. www.blackpast.org

AUSTEN. JANENORTHANGER ABBEY: and PERSUASION. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice," "Mansfield Park," &c. With a biographical notice of the Author John Murray. London. 1818. John Murray. London. 1818. FIRST EDITION. Four volumes. 12mo. (7.3 x 4.3 inches). All Half titles present. Skilfully rebound to style in dark blue half calf, smooth spines, with multiple ruled lines, the compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Neat previous owners name on the top of the title pages to the first three volumes. One small closed tear, without loss, has been neatly repaired to the top inner corner of the title page in volume one. Some occasional mild spotting to a few gatherings but generally a very good, tall, copy with good wide margins. An attractive set of the First edition of Jane Austen's final published work, pairing her last completed novel with the light-spirited satire which was probably the first full-length novel she wrote. Her brother Henry's biographical notice, dated 13 December 1817, though generally reckoned to be too lavish with unqualified praise, is the first acknowledgement in print of Jane Austen as the author of her six novels.

"RILEY JAMES, Capt.""An authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce, wrecked on the western coast of Africa, in the month of August, 1815, with an account of the sufferings of her surviving officers and crew, who were enslaved by the wandering Arabs on the great African desert, or Zahahrah; and observations historical, geographical, &c. made during the travels of the author, while a slave to the Arabs, and in the empire of Morocco ... with a new, valuable, and interesting appendix ... Third edition" New York: published by the author, 1818. New York: published by the author. 1818. "8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 407; 10 engraved plates; lacks the folding map; pp. 229-30 bound out of order and with a hole with loss to a total of 20 lines (recto and verso); frontispiece trimmed in the gutter and reinserted; the recto of the frontis with an interesting presentation from Riley: ""Commodore James Barron from his friend and admirer James Riley, Washington Feby. 27, 1819.""& & Bound with, as issued: Paddock, Judah. A narrative of the shipwreck of the ship Oswego, on the coast of south Barbary, and of the sufferings of the master and crew while in bondage among the Arabs... New York: published by Captain James Riley, 1818, pp. xv, [1], 186. This third edition of Riley&#39;s Narrative is the first to contain Paddock&#39;s Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Ship Oswego.& & Recent brown calf, black morocco on gilt-paneled spine; aside from the defects noted, a very good, sound copy.& & James Riley and James Barron were two of the most celebrated, skillful, and ill-starred American seamen of the 19th century. Riley (1777-1840) survived shipwreck and enslavement by the Arabs in Morocco in 1815, and in 1817 published this account of his and his shipmates&#39; ordeal that went through many editions and became one of the most popular books of the 19th century. Abraham Lincoln called it one of his half dozen favorite books, and he was surely influenced by the book&#39;s description of white Americans enslaved and humiliated by black Moors, as well as by Riley&#39;s salute to the charity and benevolence of a Muslim. James Barron (1769-1851) was a naval officer highly regarded for his masterful seamanship. His most notable service was in the War with Tripoli, but his career was blighted and his reputation destroyed by two events: the ""Chesapeake-Leopard Incident"" in 1807, when Barron was forced to surrender his ill-prepared frigate to a British ship that boarded his vessel and seized alleged British deserters which lead to a court-martial and Barron&#39;s suspension without pay for five years; and Barron&#39;s fatal shooting of Commodore Stephen Decatur -- America&#39;s greatest hero of the time -- in a duel in March, 1820. & & Barron had spent a period of his suspension involved in commercial trading in Europe. During part of that time Riley was also travelling and trading in Europe, and it was perhaps then that the two met. In February 1819 Riley was in Washington to secure an appointment as deputy surveyor of public lands in Ohio, and Barron arrived there that month to seek -- successfully -- reinstatement in the U. S. Navy following his suspension and exile. Although both men suffered extraordinary vicissitudes during their lives, they were among the leading American celebrities of their time.& & Huntress 190C (Riley) and 193C (Paddock); Sabin 71397; Smith, American Travellers Abroad, P3 and R30.& "

[ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator] | BURTON, Alfred |Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy, The , 1818. 1818. first edition. In the Original Boards[ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. BURTON, Alfred. The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy. A Poem, in Four Cantos: With Plates by Rowlandson, From the Author&#39;s Designs. London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1818. First edition. Octavo (6 7/8 x 5 1/8 in; 226 x 132 mm). [2], 259, [1, errata] pp. Untrimmed. Sixteen hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece, designed by Rowlandson and engraved by W. Read. In the original drab boards with printed spine label. With the bookplate of Hon. John Wayland Leslie and bookseller&#39;s ticket. Some distress to spine as expected otherwise an internally clean, fresh, and fine copy. Chemised and housed in a full red morocco pull-off case.Not to be confused with a subsequent book - also a poem in four cantos - with the same title by John Mitford with illustrations by Charles Williams published in 1819. It is a common mistake to presume that Alfred Burton was a pseudonym for John Mitford and that the two books are one and the same; many library records are littered with this misinformation, as is Wikipedia. Hardie declares that the Mitford was an "open imitation" of the Burton."Johhny Newcome" was British slang for a raw recruit, Army or Navy.Hon. John Wayland Leslie (1909-1991), a celebrated collector of color plate books, was son of the 19th Earl of Rothes.The Plates:1. Leaving-Home.2. Sheerness Boat.3. The Admiral has made it Sunset, Sir!4. Turning-In.5. Sea-Sick.6. Sent to hear the Dog-Fish Bark.7. The Captain&#39;s going out of the Ship, Gentlemen!8. Seized-up in the Rigging.9. Cobbed - Watch!10. Crossing the Line.11. Plymouth Playhouse.12. Going to Ivy-Bridge.13. In the Grocer&#39;s shop.14. Johnny and Maria.15. Mast-Headed.16. A-Sleep at the Mast-Head.Abbey, Life 330. Tooley 406. Hardie, pp. 173, 318. Prideaux, p. 329.

Clapham, Samuel [et al.]; Blackstone, Sir Wm.A Collection of the Several Points of Sessions' Law, Alphabetically... 1818. Clapham, Samuel [1755-1830]. A Collection of the Several Points of Sessions' Law, Alphabetically Arranged; Contained in Burn and Williams on the Office of a Justice, Blackstone's Commentaries, East and Hawkins on Crown Law, Addington's Penal Statutes, and Const and Nolan on the Poor Laws: Designed to Assist Magistrates to Refer to These Several Authorities, To Supply the Clergy with Professional Information, and to Enable Vestries to Transact the Business of their Respective Parishes: The Statutes Continued to 57 Geo. III. 1817, Inclusive. London: J. Butterworth and Son, 1818. Two Volumes. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/4"). Contemporary calf, blind frames to boards, rebacked retaining spines with raised bands and lettering pieces. Some rubbing to extremities, a few minor scratches to boards. Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Ilchester and small bookseller ticket to front pastedowns. Light foxing to a few leaves in each volume, interiors otherwise fresh. * Sole edition. "The following laborious compilation is designed to prevent that tedious research, to which even experienced Magistrates are, sometimes, compelled to submit. (...) If, for instance, he wishes to know whether Beer may be sold in private Houses, Booths, or Tents at Fairs, without Licence, he might have some trouble in meeting with the solution of his doubts; but by turning to Booths, Fairs, Houses, and Tents, he will be referred to Alehouses II.30. where he will meet with two references in Addington, Burn, and Williams, one in Hawkins, and one on the Law Dictionary" (v). OCLC locates 11 copies, 7 in the United States. Not in Eller. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:66..

Bentham, JeremyThEorie des Peines et des REcompenses, ouvrage extrait des manuscrits de M. JErEmie Bentham-par Et. Dumont Paris: Chez Bossange et Masson, et a Londres, 1818. Paris: Chez Bossange et Masson, et a Londres, 1818. Second edition. First published in 1811. 2 vols., 8vo. . Contemporary calf-backed boards. Upper joints delicate, some light spotting in text, else a very good copy . This book was Translated from Bentham&#39;s mss. by Dumont and was not published in English until 1830, then under the title The Rationale of Punishment. This is the second edition

Landmann, GeorgeHistorical, Military, and Picturesque Observations on Portugal, Illustrated By Seventy-five Colour Plates, Including Authentic Plans of the Sieges and Battles Fought in the Peninsula During the Late War London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [12], 607pp, [1], xiv and Volume Two - [2], xii, 293, [1], 132, [2], 203pp. Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper over boards, smooth backs, spines in seven panels divided by a greek key roll, author and title to second panel, volume and number to fifth. Rubbed to extremities, some bumping to lower edge of boards, paper covering boards slightly rubbed and slightly chipped to edges. Lightly foxed internally, off-setting to some of the maps / plans, Oo3 in volume one with loss to bottom margin (not affecting text), small puncture hole to map at page 588 in volume and a small puncture to plate at page 80 in volume two, lacks the half-titles. Most of the folding plates have a small repair to, or just adjacent to, the fold. Armorial bookplate of Rear-Admiral Charles Ekins to front pastedowns, with a large presentation inscription from Ekins to Colonel Henry Salwey to ffeps. Ekins, (later knighted), had served in the Navy on the coast of Portugal in 1808, (see ODNB), Salwey was later the MP for Ludlow. Complete with seventy-six coloured aquatints (seventy-five called for, but one folding plate is omitted from the list of plates), including thirteen folding or double page. The plates are after Landmann by Stadler, Hill, Havell, Ogborne, Baily and Jeakes. Abbey Travel 140; Tooley 291, "the most beautiful illustrated English book on Portugal of the period"; Brunet III:812; Thomson II:565. First Edition. Half Morocco and Boards. Good+. Folio.